Kim Jong Un Will Be Happy For South Korea’s Crisis: North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un is called a dictator. There are many sanctions imposed on North Korea and its history is called bloody, but the politics of South Korea has also not been clean. Today, South Korea may be decades ahead of North Korea in terms of development, but its history is also full of bloodshed. The biggest difference between North Korea and South Korea is that North Korea has dictatorship and South Korea has democracy. However, many dictators have come to power in South Korea also. Apart from this, many leaders in South Korea have had to go to jail on corruption charges.
Now once again South Korea is burning. The demand for impeachment against the President and the Defense Minister, who imposed martial law for a few hours, has intensified. Demonstrations are being held in the entire country including the capital Seoul. People took out a rally in the capital Seoul demanding impeachment against President Yoon Suk Yeol. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faced a second impeachment vote on Saturday. Obviously, Kim would be very happy with this situation in South Korea. Know here when and how often this type of tornado occurred in South Korea…
2016: Park impeached, jailed
Park Geun-hye, president since 2013, was impeached by parliament in December 2016. Then the Constitutional Court sent him to jail in a decision in March 2017. She is the daughter of former dictator Park Chung-hee. She was the first female president of South Korea and presented herself to South Korea as honest, but was accused of receiving or soliciting millions of dollars from other groups, including Samsung. Other allegations against him included sharing classified documents, placing artists who criticized his policies on a “blacklist”, and firing officials who opposed him. Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined heavily in 2021, but was pardoned by her successor Moon Jae-in in late 2021. Current President Yoon was a Seoul prosecutor at the time and played a key role in Park Geun-hye’s dismissal and subsequent imprisonment.
Lee Myung-bak: 15 years in prison
Park’s predecessor Lee Myung-bak, in power from 2008 to 2013, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption in October 2018. He was also found guilty of taking bribe from Samsung. He was also pardoned by President Yoon in December 2022.
Roh Moo-hyun: suicide
Roh Moo-hyun, president from 2003 to 2008 and a strong supporter of rapprochement with North Korea, committed suicide by jumping from a mountain in May 2009. He was accused of paying one million dollars to his wife by a rich shoe company and five million dollars to his niece’s husband.
1987: Nirankush Chun retired
Chun Doo-hwan, known as the “Butcher of Gwangju”, agreed to step down after mass demonstrations in 1987. After this he handed over power to his disciple Roh Tae-woo. Roh and Chun were close for decades. Both of them first met in the military academy during the Korean War. In 1996, both were convicted of treason over the 1979 coup. Chun came to power through this coup. He was also convicted of the 1980 Gwangju rebellion, corruption and other crimes. Roh was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. It was later reduced to 17 years, while Chun was sentenced to death. Later it was changed to life imprisonment. He was finally granted amnesty in 1998. He spent only two years behind bars.
1979: Assassination of Dictator Park
Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the chief of her own country’s intelligence agency during a private dinner in October 1979. The events of that night have been the subject of discussion in South Korea, particularly over whether the murder was premeditated. The then army generals Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo took advantage of this political confusion to carry out a coup in December 1979.
1961: Yun is overthrown in a coup
President Yun Po-sun was overthrown in a coup led by army officer Park Chung-hee in 1961. Park allowed Yun to remain in office but took control of the government, then removed Yun from office after winning the elections in 1963.
1960: Exile of the first president
The first President of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, was elected in 1948. He was forced to resign after a popular student-led rebellion in 1960. He was accused of trying to extend his tenure through rigged elections. Rea was forced into exile in Hawaii and died there in 1965.
